TV audiences have been gripped by a new show that centres around a fictional Newbury murder.

In The Trial: Murder in the Family, a man, from Reading, is accused of strangling his estranged wife. 

The show seeks to show a trial from the perspective of a jury and shows how they reach a verdict. 

So far the jury has heard that on the morning on September 25, the defendant allegedly went to his former home, where his wife is living with their children and another man, and strangled her. 

More to follow.